$2600 Vol. 18, No. 2 - Staff

Editor-in-Chief:	Emmanuel Goldstein
Layout and Design:	ShapeShifter
Cover Concept and Photo:	David A. Buchwald
Cover Design:	The Chopping Block, Inc.
Office Manager:	Tampruf
Writers	Bernie S., BillSF, Blue Whale, Noam Chomski, Evil Corley, John Drake, Paul Estev, Mr. French, Thomas Icom, Javaman, Joe630, Kingpin, Miff, Kevin Mitnick, The Prophet, David Ruderman, Seraf, Silent Switchman, Scott Skinner, Mr. Upsetter
Webmaster:	BluKnight
Web Assistance:	Juintz, Kerry
Network Operations:	CSS, Phiber Optik
Special Projects:	mlc
Broadcast Coordinator:	Juintz, Cnote, Silicon, Absolute0, RFmadman, BluKnight, Monarch, Fearfree, Mennonite, jjjack, Jack Anderson
IRC Admins:	Autojack, Ninevolt
Inspirational Music:	Grade, Throbbing Gristle, Wendy James, Phil Ochs, Billy Bragg, Jim Carroll, Barkmarket, iTunes
Shout Outs:	All our friends in Detroit, Dayton, and the stops along the way, Eric Grimm, Kathleen Sullivan, John Gilmore, Robin Gross, (((Cindy Cohn))), Xenocide Matt, Monarch, Trenton Computer Festival, ICON, Leila and Greg, Smark and Roddy, Dan Morgan, Athens Film Festival
What Was:	Douglas Adams, Joey Ramone
What Wasn't:	Shinjan Majumder

"Handing over the digital spectrum, or for that matter the Internet, to private power - that's a huge blow against democracy.  In the case of the Internet, it's a particularly dramatic blow against democracy because this was paid for by the public.  How undemocratic can you get?  Here is a major instrument, developed by the public - first part of the Pentagon, and then universities and the National Science Foundation - handed over in some manner that nobody knows to private corporations who want to turn it into an instrument of control.  They want to turn it into a home shopping center.  You know, where it will help them convert you into the kind of person they want.  Namely, someone who is passive, apathetic, sees their life only as a matter of having more commodities that they don't want.  Why give them a powerful weapon to turn you into that kind of a person?  Especially after you paid for the weapon?  Well, that's what's happening right in front of our eyes."

    - (((Noam Chomksy))), linguist and "political dissident," from an interview with the Boston Phoenix in 1999.